Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
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At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
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The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
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When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child.
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Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
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We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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